by Steve Smith We go hunting, many of us, partly to get away from it all. Just us and our dogs and acres and acres of uninhabited prairie or creek bottom or clearcut. Unless we’re, I don’t know, [...]
So, I have had my pup for over a month now; he is a pointer 13 weeks old today. I have been working with him, socializing, he’s learning his name, learning no, taking him into the field. My [...]
My friendship as hunting companions and my professional dealings with Gene Hill over the years were about impossible to tell apart. As his co-author on some things and as his editor at several [...]
I expect that my background with bird dogs is somewhat different than many PDJ subscribers. Although I grew up a small game hunter in Iowa (obviously including pheasants), my father, older [...]
Funny thing happened to me the other day, and oddly enough, it was on a turkey hunt. A turkeyless hunt, actually, as it turned out. I was leaning against a tree, listening to a couple toms gobble [...]
by Tom Davis, Editor-at-Large In A Hunter’s Road, Jim Fergus’s acclaimed chronicle of the 17,000-mile wingshooting odyssey he undertook in 1990-’91, there’s a passage in which he relates a [...]
Of all the important “firsts” that your pointing dog pup will experience, his first season will be the one most profound, the one most instrumental in his development as a bird dog. Here are some [...]
Q: My dog started off well during the season in terms of conditioning, but now, he seems not to be able to go as long during the day when we pheasant hunt. With cooler temperatures, [...]
by Bob and Jody Iler One of the most important commands your pointing dog learns is Come. This is the command that can save his life, teach him to reliably retrieve a bird to hand, and help him [...]
This update to our 2021 Upland Gamebird Hunting Forecast incorporates the results of late summer upland bird population surveys. This data measures recruitment of birds into the fall population, [...]
